He with his annoying factoids and runny nose. She with her shining white shoes as big as sailboats. Both of them strangers who, like the hot desert wind that brings only bad news, blow into town and change everything.

Suzanne Crowley has always been fascinated with Elizabethan England, and according to family lore, she is a descendant of Lady Jane Grey, the Nine Days Queen. She is also the author of The Very Ordered Existence of Merilee Marvelous, a Book Sense "Top Ten" Pick. Suzanne Crowley lives with her family in Southlake, Texas.

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Thirteen-year-old Merilee rarely speaks but collects her town’s secrets and “hold[s] every sad thing there ever was in the palm of [her] hand.” Her VOE (“Very Ordered Existence”) includes exact schedules, elective daily litter pickup and avoidance of touch, but the overheard word “asparagus” is t...